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| reply to morbo
Re: Crap costs baby. C-band is able to do it because of two reasons:
1. It's a niche market (not only compared to cable, but *especially* compared to small-dish).
2. The equipment is mostly already paid for (C-band satellites are *old* and getting older, and the costs have long been recovered).
3. C-band programmers price the offerings as basically loss-leaders (those that do nothing else, which is basically NPS, are rare, and NPS is privately held; the others also sell programming for small-dish and/or nonresidential consumption).
Also, even big-dish offers tiers (in fact, tier consumption even for C-band is greater than ala carte; how many big-dish programmers still offer realistic ala carte today?). |
